Well, I guess with all the school shootings in the past, as well as society's general outlook that "guns are bad", its not surprising that this would happen. I mean, paranoid neighbours see you carrying around what, to them, looks to be a real rifle, they have no way of knowing its not in fact real, so they assume the worst.

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